926 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



1879 Salisbury Mills 



Nine miles southwest of Newburg. This skeleton is 

 now mounted in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. Professor Whitfield sends the following 

 memorandum concerning " it " : 



The pelvis and three ribs are from Hangman's creek 

 in Oregon. Tusks are from Hoopston, 111. A few of the 

 foot bones are restored. All the rest is from the one in- 

 dividual and place except the caudal appendage, the ex- 

 tension of which was modeled from Jumbo's tail. 



1899 Newburg 



A nearly entire skeleton found on the farm of F. W. 

 Schaeffer, 3 miles west of Newburg, under muck and shell 

 marl lying on a stony pavement. The skeleton lacked 

 20 vertebrae, one scapula and all of legs and feet except- 

 ing about 20 phalanges. It was restored and mounted 

 and is now in the museum of the Brooklyn Institute. 



1901 Monroe 



Found, for the most part, about 1888, on land of 

 Martin Konnight. The bones lay beneath 3 feet of 

 clayey muck at the bottom of a pond 3 to 10 feet deep. 

 Further excavations were carried on in 1901 by J. M. 

 Clarke. The bones found consist of rather more than one 

 half the entire skeleton: two tusks, 8 to 9 feet in length, 

 the two tusks of the lower jaw, scapula, tibia, femur, 

 ribs, vertebrae, etc. They are in possession of the New 

 York State Museum. 



1901 Arden 



Tusk and a few other bones. 



1902 Balmville 



Found on George Gordon estate. Bones lay at depths 

 of from 2 to 8 feet below the surface, some in the muck 

 and some in marl below. Under the marl is a boulder 

 pavement. There have been found (Oct. 30) cranium and 

 lower jaw, one tusk (7 feet), 18 ribs, 14 vertebrae, some 

 foot bones. 



Sullivan county 



1827 Between Red Bridge and Wurtsboro 



The fossil remains of a Mastodon giganteum 

 were discovered last autumn by workmen while digging 



